This is the error I get
(mysite)zjm1126#zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (70Kb): 70Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package mysql-python
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /home/zjm1126/.pip/pip.log
(mysite)zjm1126#zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
Running setup.py egg_info for package mysql-python
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/home/zjm1126/zjm_test/mysite/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /home/zjm1126/.pip/pip.log
What can I do to resolve this?
It seems mysql_config is missing on your system or the installer could not find it.
Be sure mysql_config is really installed.
For example on Debian/Ubuntu you must install the package:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
Maybe the mysql_config is not in your path, it will be the case when you compile by yourself
the mysql suite.
Update: For recent versions of debian/ubuntu (as of 2018) it is
sudo apt install default-libmysqlclient-dev
In Mac OS, I simply ran this in terminal to fix:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
This is the quickest fix I found - it adds it to the path, but I think you're better off adding it permanently (ie add it to /etc/paths) if you plan to install MySQL-python in another environment.
(tested in OSX Mountain Lion)
There maybe various answers for the above issue, below is a aggregated solution.
For Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install python-dev
$ sudo apt install python-MySQLdb
For CentOS:
$ yum install python-devel mysql-devel
apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev python-dev
Seemed to do the trick.
If you are on MAC
Install this globally
brew install mysql
then export path like this
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
Than globally or in your venv whatever you like
pip install MySQL-Python
Note: globally for python3 as Mac can have both python2 & 3
pip3 install MySQL-Python
You can use the MySQL Connector/Python
Installation via PyPip
pip install mysql-connector-python
Further information can be found on the MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.5 beta announcement blog.
On Launchpad there's a good example of how to add-, edit- or remove data with the library.
For centos users:
yum install -y mysql-devel python-devel python-setuptools
then
pip install MySQL-python
If this solution doesn't work, and print gcc compile error like:
_mysql.c:29:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
You need to specify the path of Python.h, like this:
pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I/usr/include/python2.6" MySQL-python
I was trying to install mysql-python on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance and I had to install these :
yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-common mysql-libs gcc
But then I got this error :
_mysql.c:29:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
So I installed :
yum install python-devel
And that did the trick.
For anyone that is using MariaDB instead of MySQL, the solution is to install the libmariadbclient-dev package and create a symbolic link to the config file with the correct name.
For example this worked for me:
ln -s /usr/bin/mariadb_config /usr/bin/mysql_config
For Linux
this works for me
yum install python-devel mysql-devel
Try sudo apt-get build-dep python-mysqldb
OSX Mavericks
Due to changes within osx mavericks & xcode development tools you may get the error on installation
clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
therefore use :
sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future pip install mysql-python
for mariadb install libmariadbclient-dev instead of libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev
You should install the mysql first:
yum install python-devel mysql-community-devel -y
Then you can install mysqlclient:
pip install mysqlclient
I had the same problem in the Terraform:light container. It is based on Alpine.
There you have to install mariadb-dev with:
apk add mariadb-dev
But that one is not enough because also all the other dependencies are missed:
apk add python2 py2-pip gcc python2-dev musl-dev
sometimes the error depends on the actual cause. we had a case where mysql-python was installed through the python-mysqldb debian package.
a developer who didn't know this, accidentally ran pip uninstall mysql-python and then failed to recover with pip install mysql-python giving the above error.
pip uninstall mysql-python had destroyed the debian package contents, and of course pip install mysql-python failed because the debian package didn't need any dev files.
the correct solution in that case was apt-get install --reinstall python-mysqldb which restored mysql-python to its original state.
Sequence to be followed.
pip install mysqlclient
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
pip install configparser
sudo cp /usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py /usr/lib/python3.6/ConfigParser.py
Then try to install the MYSQL-python again. That Worked for me
On Mac:
brew install mysql-client
locate mysql
mdfind mysql | grep bin
then add to path
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client/8.0.23/bin/
or permanently
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-client/8.0.23/bin/" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
Had a similar issue trying to install on OS X Server 10.6.8. Here's what I had to do.
Using:
MySQL-python 1.2.4b4 (source)
MySQL-5.6.19 (binary installer)
Python 2.7 (binary installer)
NOTE: Installing in virtualenv...
Unzip source, open 'distribute_setup.py' and edit DEFAULT_VERSION to use the latest version of distribute tools, like so:
DEFAULT_VERSION = "0.6.49"
Save. Open 'site.cfg' file and uncomment the path to mysql_config so it looks something like (reference your own path to mysql_config):
# The path to mysql_config.
# Only use this if mysql_config is not on your PATH, or you have some weird
# setup that requires it.
mysql_config = /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Now clean, build and make will not fail with the 'mysql_config' not found error.
Hope this helps someone else trying to make use of their old xserves :-)
Your sudo path does not know about your local path... go into superuser mode, add the path, and install it from there.
sudo su
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin/
pip install mysql-python
exit
And you're up and running on OSX. Now you have an updated global python.
if you install MySQL-python in your virtual env, you should check the pip version, if the version is older than 9.0.1, please update it
pip install --upgrade pip
write on 27 Aug, 2021
my macos version is BigSur(14.4), and mysql version is mysql8. It seems like in the higher version of mysql, they delete the my_config.h files but change to the mysql.h.
so your guys should run the following shell:
cd /usr/local/include/mysql
cp mysql.h my_config.h
after that, run pip install MySQL-python and everything will be ok.
on MacOS Mojave, mysql_config is found at /usr/local/bin/ rather than /usr/local/mysql/bin as pointed above, so no need to add anything to path.
In my case my database is running on container and my flask app is running on another container when i tried updating code app got broke with error
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: mariadb_config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 65, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs")
File "/tmp/pip-build-bya8e734/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 31, in mysql_config
raise OSError("{} not found".format(_mysql_config_path))
OSError: mysql_config not found
Key in stack trace is
/bin/sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
because where my flask app is running doesn't have mysql client properly configured so first i installed mysql server and then install
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.7 -y
Then started MySQL
mansoor#LARC-mansur:~/Documents/clients/HR/DevopsSimulator/web$ sudo systemctl start mysql
Then install flask-mysql package and this time it worked
mansoor#LARC-mansur:~/Documents/clients/HR/DevopsSimulator/web$ sudo pip3 install flask-mysqldb
This is different case but posting here because may be someone else in the world facing same issue
sudo pip install mysqlclient is failing with the famous mysql_config path error
The database is a remote mysql RDS. I tried to install a local mysql using yum (not that i need it) but that didn't help with the error
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$ sudo pip install mysqlclient
Collecting mysqlclient
Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.12.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-opVvwg/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 44, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 26, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-opVvwg/mysqlclient/
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$ cat /etc/*-release
NAME="Amazon Linux AMI"
VERSION="2017.09"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2017.09"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2017.09:ga"
HOME_URL="http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/"
Amazon Linux AMI release 2017.09
[ec2-user#ip-172-31-95-95 /]$
First you have to do some initial setup for the compiler of mysql on the os, at least from what I understand.
Make sure you have compiler collection
sudo yum install gcc
Make sure mysql is configured for development purposes
sudo yum install -y mysql-devel
Try to reinstall
pip install mysqlclient==1.3.12
Hope this helps since it seemed to do the trick for me. I came across this here where I found for the equivalent to ubuntu's sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
I'm attempting to install mysqlclient using the command:
pip install mysqlclient
but i get the following error:
Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.12.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
/bin/sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/private/var/folders/8d/xdwdnphs1w5b_vtxrc67__5h0000gn/T/pip-build-ifu54299/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "/private/var/folders/8d/xdwdnphs1w5b_vtxrc67__5h0000gn/T/pip-build-ifu54299/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 44, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "/private/var/folders/8d/xdwdnphs1w5b_vtxrc67__5h0000gn/T/pip-build-ifu54299/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 26, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
OSError: mysql_config not found
I uninstalled python3 using brew uninstall --force python3 and downloaded the binary from pythons website but to no avail. I also attempted to download mysql connector from oracle website and again to no avail. I have tried upgrading pip again still doesnt work.
PS mysql is running in a docker container and i'm running django on my local machine.
Any suggestions on why i'm getting an error attempting to install mysqlclient
For Python I can recommend pymysql is pretty good and I always use it.
https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL
or you can follow this answer
Installing MySQL Python on Mac OS X
you need to install mysql and mysql connector before install my sql client
brew install mysql
brew install mysql-connector-c
I've been trying to install mysql for hours now, I've gone through so many forums and everything can someone help me. Every time I run the command pip install mysql-python I get
(DjangoProject-env)Adams-MacBook-Air:DjangoProject AdamC$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB): 108kB downloaded
Running setup.py (path:/Users/AdamC/projects/Environment/DjangoProject-env/build/mysql- python/setup.py) egg_info for package mysql-python
sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "/Users/AdamC/projects/Environment/DjangoProject-env/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "/Users/AdamC/projects/Environment/DjangoProject-env/build/mysql-python/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /Users/AdamC/projects/Environment/DjangoProject-env/build/mysql-python
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/AdamC/.pip/pip.log
(DjangoProject-env)Adams-MacBook-Air:DjangoPoject AdamC$
I've tried sourcing a .profile
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib/
And a few other things but I can't remember right now, any help would be greatly appreciated.
try doing
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libmysqlclient-dev
later
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
I had this same error, but I'm not sure if it's from the same situation. I didn't originally have MySQL installed when I was trying to install mysql-python. It therefore couldn't use any MySQL commands like mysql-config.
If you don't have Mac Homebrew installed, go here to learn how to install it: http://brew.sh/
Then you can install MySQL with this command:
brew install mysql
And finally,
pip install mysql-python
should proceed to completion.
I had a similar situation. You can try:
Step1. Download the Postgres server at www.psequel.com
Step2. Select
the Gui Application link and then select the PSequel.
Step3.Once
everything has been downloaded, open your Postgres panel and then
launch the terminal by clicking "open psql." This takes you to the
terminal. Step4. You can now start using creating databases using
MySQL.
macos: If you do not use brew you can install mysql from the installer:
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
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EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found, while installing MySQL-python
Could someone advice me on what to do? I did the following from my-side:
Error I got while installing with pip:
ubuntu12.04#ubuntu12.04:~$ sudo pip install MySQL-python
Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.4.zip (113kB): 113kB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package MySQL-python
sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 18, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: 1: mysql_config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 18, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config("libs_r")
File "setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_roo
I am running UBUNTU 12.04 LTS on my comp.
Installing manually gives the same error. I tried easy_install, it didn't help either.
I searched for mysql_config manually, i couldn't find it any where in by system files.
After a quick search i have found out that mysql_config belongs to libmysqlclient-dev. So, i tried getting these packages using:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
It gave the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libmysqlclient-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
mysql-server-5.5
E: Package 'libmysqlclient-dev' has no installation candidate
I even downloaded libmysqlclient-dev packages from the source and tried installing them manually, it's giving dependency errors. Following is the output while installing.
ubuntu#ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i libmysqlclient-dev_5.5.32- 0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package libmysqlclient-dev.
(Reading database ... 203659 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmysqlclient-dev (from libmysqlclient-dev_5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libmysqlclient-dev:
libmysqlclient-dev depends on libmysqlclient18 (= 5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1); however:
Version of libmysqlclient18 on system is 5.5.33+dfsg-1.
dpkg: error processing libmysqlclient-dev (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libmysqlclient-dev
To sum up some of the solutions provided in other SO questions (and basing on the error output). Firstly,
sudo apt-get update
So what it does is
Used to re-synchronize the package index files from their sources. The indexes of available packages are fetched from the location(s) specified in /etc/apt/sources.list(5).
And could solve
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libmysqlclient-dev
Run the following afterwards if sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev still doesn't work
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
Finally, check if mysql_config is in your PATH; add if necessary
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/your/mysql_config
To possibly solve
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Similar:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/252777/how-can-i-resolve-dpkg-dependency
https://askubuntu.com/questions/222348/what-does-sudo-apt-get-update-do
https://askubuntu.com/questions/292865/upgrade-mysql-server-issue
pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
virtualenv, mysql-python, pip: anyone know how?
Try to add apt-get source list, and use apt-get to install, which may prevent the dpkg error.
Check this: https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/ubuntu/trusty/libmariadbclient-dev